Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:54:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: kalev@colleduc.ee Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Giving up on x buffers - losing files Message-ID: <200406281354.i5SDsJkm067510@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <40DFBC86.3070103@colleduc.ee>
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On 28 Jun, Kalev Lember wrote: > Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > >> <snip> >> >> Sometimes, particularly after doing a lot of file writes (i.e. >> compiling a lot of ports, building world and mergemastering, etc), I >> get the 'Giving up on x buffers' message on shutdown, and my >> filesystems come up dirty when I restart. >> >> <snip> >> >> So, why does this happen? And how do I prevent it from happening? >> This definitely does _not_ sound like something I want my servers to >> do when 5.x goes -STABLE. > > Not sure if it is related, but if I have ext2 mounted on shutdown, the > syncer also fails and gives up on a few buffers. It is reproducable. I > can recall it was fixed about a year ago, but then broke again. This is an unrelated bug that has also been discussed. I believe it even affects read-only mounts of ext2 file systems.
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